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RANGERS AND SOVEREIGNTY.

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Packsaddle Mountain FightBeing almost coincident with our Deer Creek fight,we copy Mr. James R. Moss' account of the PacksaddleMountain fight. The Moss brothers, and theRoberts brothers were a team that always pulled together,and we never knew a Moss to balk."On the 4th day of August, 1873, a party of redskinssupposed to be Comanches, made a raid intoLlano County, and stole a lot of horses, with whichthey were making their escape out of the country,when a company of eight, Dever Harrington, RobertBrown, Eli Lloyd, Arch Martin, Pink Ayres and theMoss brothers, James R., William and Stephen D.,was organized and started in pursuit. After followingthe trail perhaps a distance of forty miles, theRangers discovered the Indians about noon on the followingday in camp on top of Packsaddle Mountain.Concealing their movements the pursuers carefullyreconnoitered the situation and discovered that theredskins had made only a temporary halt to rest andrefresh themselves. They had passed over an openspace about forty yards in width covered with grassand had pitched their camp on the edge of the bluffbeyond, leaving their stock in the glade to graze. Thebluff where they halted was skirted below with a